If you’re in one of these cities, schedule an email to your councilperson to send in a few weeks about it. Remind them we don’t want any other surveillance on your streets. (Maybe a calendar reminder for you too, to check and see what nonsense they’ve gotten to.)
This is a win. Now, if your city did this: Set a calendar remainder (scheduled email, alarm, I don’t care what) for in 2 months to check that your city doesn’t return to Flock or one of their competitors. Demand real reduction of surveillance.
Honestly can’t tell which one is which. Most manifesto’s don’t do anything but social-signalling; and neither does the average climate report…
Wish we’d do this to academics more often. Give them enough to live on, no responsibilities, and beat anyone who tries to socialize with them with a big stick.
This is what you can expect from a mathematician. Always ahead of the curve.
We can do even better: just post the readme+prompts used to design the software, and let the users AI agent recode it themselves! Perfectly secure.
They’re welcome to lie with the numbers! But then I can at least reason about it. Right now, we’re looking at some cherry-picked end points and ignoring the proposed numerics entirely.
Note that cheaper self-checkout means more demand for it (and less demand for cashiers). So we’ll have fewer jobs, and worse service for those who can’t (for w/e reason) use self-checkout.
Most of its happening anyway.
The numbers are public. You can do the math and convince us.
That’s an abysmally small number compared to the amount of product they move.
Yes, sure, CEO’s should make less. But that amounts to fractions of a percent on the typical purchase, not 10%.
This; anything else is just surveillance companies jockeying for contracts. Let’s ban the thing that’s bad, government’s spying on their own citizens, please.
Is this meaningfully distinct from measuring monpolization/oligopolies? I can’t recall how we filter out small businesses + self employed folk (and how that plays against companies eating other companies.)
I do wish this was an easier sequence of steps to follow. I know I should, but it’s so very much work.
Imagine. Oracle not being relevant. The dream
Yeah… innumeracy really isn’t helping anybody here.
Confused at where the 1.5 trillion comes from, but maybe I’m just not following closely enough. (edit: pretty sure this is Iraq)
(page 53) The next line of that interview quote:
Eight of us managed to do it. The next time we attacked, we could jump.
And the footnote:
Interview with ISWAP Commander-7, 2025. While this may seem extreme, the episode reflects a pattern evident across other interviews, in which the group absorbed heavy casualties during dangerous experimentation and training.
It sure is wild; but humans aren’t the expensive thing for Boko Haram I guess?
specialists worked side-by-side with the tools, consulting the chatbot in direct support of technical work, as in the recounted case of a bombmaker who iteratively refined new device designs with AI, returning to the laptop for troubleshooting when something was not working or needed clarification.
Regarding the first usage, both factions seize a significant part of their weaponry, military equipment, and ammunition from the Nigerian military. Struggling to operate some of the loot, ISWAP’s leader al-Barnawi stated in a letter to the Islamic State back in 2017: “I am reminded of a funny story when about a year ago, we seized Dragunov rifles as war spoils and we had to make them work so we could use them. We checked many handbooks and specialized videos on this technical issue, but we eventually dropped it in despair after all our attempts failed.”88 This account contrasts with how these situations are handled and resolved today, where “we take all of the equipment back to the camp and the AI unit tells us how to use and shoot with it.”
Perhaps not surprising that it performs well on these sorts of tasks, despite what they say the military is a big buyer…
Or a pet rock.
See an extended version of this take from Bruce Schneier. (He’s also going to spend awhile arguing for a public option on AI; something using the technology in an open way, respecting IP, and distributing the benefits.)
1% is enough for shareholders to notice… Surely it’s enough for us to notice.